Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-06-16
PROGRESS At wALTHAM.

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manufacturers of pocket timepieces.
During an interview the other day with
a representative of Robbins & Apple
ton, he said: 1--WE have a number Of
novelties that ought to be worthy of
your attention, and in fact of the trade
in general. During the year 1886, we
have had steadily increasing demand
for our better class Of goods. This is
owing to the very great Improvements
which have therein been accomplished.
For instance, all the watches fitted with
our patent Breguet hair-spring have
met with special favor, because OF the
great amount of extra quality which
this hair spring imparts to the goods.
The company seem to have pursued
the policy of not increasing the guam
tity of their lowest priced goods, but
rather of putting the better and
medium grades at figures which
bring them within the reach OF
very limited purse, and en-
able dealers with very limited capital
to lay in an assorted stock of good
quality goods of great popularity.
The B artlett watch may be taken as an
example. Here is movement equipped
with all that can possibly be put into
watch to make it thorough time
keeper, and its price is fabulously low.
An English matchmaker recently took
one Of these Bartlett movements OF the
new model, examined it carefully, and
quietly put it together with the remark:
This movement is worth e.. Yet 1t
is sold for nearly as many dollars.
1--WE have turned out some very fne
work in the way of identifying the APP
pearance of the watch, both in nickel
frosting and raging, which never had
been done before. These processes
permit an almost endless variety of de-
signs and patterns which adapt them
selves beautifully to the shape of the
watch-plate.
1.-The chief novelty with which the
company start out this year is thti r one
size watch-the smallest and thinnest.
as well as the finest, ladies' watch ever
made in this country. The diameter
of its dial is just the size of half dollar
piece. The train is made of gold; the
jewel-settings likewise; and the jewels
themselves are faultless rubies of the
darkest color. The watch is thorough
ly adjusted, and capable of the very
finest time-keeping. Its price is very
| ta ,cid ar.ip ho
ira fine quality and superior finish. it is
wonderfully low.
Another novelty is the 'Waltham
Minute Register Chronograph.' This
watch is so constructed as to show by
means of diminutive dial-bit and
special hand the minutes during which
the long ifth-second hand revolves. !"
Here my informant exhibited the oper-
alton of the chronograph. The long
fifth-second hand and the small special
hand are normally stationary at II, or
zero. By pressing the stem, both hands
are started, the small hand recording
successive minutes up to fifteen. At
any moment both hands may be
stopped, and another motion sends
them back to zero. This device is
especially useful to sportsmen, scien-
lists, physicians, engineers, machinists,
etc. The same attachment is applied
to the Waltham split seconds chrome
graph, making it the most durable
watch of the kind, inasmuch as the
mechanism is very simple and almost
indestructible. The Waltham chrome
graph is made in the first place to be
an accurate time keeper built on the
model of the company's finest 14-size
watch. On top Of this movement, and
without complicating it, the chrome
graph attachment is fastened, thus
clearly exposing to view the entire
monograph apparatus. The plainest
country matchmaker can take the at
tachment apart and set it together
again without trouble. A Swiss watch
maker recently remarked that nobody
would have dreamed ten years ago tina
the Americans would ever be able t
make any so-cslled complicated time
keepers, and that they really do no
make them; but they obtained watches
that had the most exact and minute
time-keeping on much simpler con
struction. As consequence, the Amer
lean watch is more reliable, less costly
to produce, and certainly without ex
pense to keep in thorough-going order
"The company have added severa
grades of six size watches to their list
which they will be able to put on tn,
market in the neighborhood of Marcl
l. This will make eight different quail
tiles of six-size movements, which
with the various cases-hunting ant
: open-face, gold, silver and aluminine-
with an almost endless variety o
a ladies' watches, affords range of choic,
r hom the cheapest limit at which a golt
. watch may be expected to the diamond
studded watch for the millionaire's wife
During the year 1886 we have adde'
two new grades of sixteen-size watches
e which really make that part of the as
sortment surprising one. Sixteen
, size watches of the Waltham patterl
I have always been considered YER
q dear watch to make; but it seems tina
. the increase in the product has enabled
. the company to amplify the line by tn
d addition of the Riverside grades. Tn
: most satisfactory line Of our goods
+ that of the patent dust-proof silve
s open face cases, which are the mos
e popular of the kind. For strength, sim
/. plicity of construction and durabllit
$ these cases stand unexceled, and eve
!. unapproached.
. Our daily product now is 1,25
. watches, and in case the deman
: should warrant it the output coul
$ easily be increased at comparativel
d short notice. st Louis Je,0eler,
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